Everything old is new again?
cynthia+2021-06-15T14:11:52-07:00OK, is it my imagination or is a bunch of the stuff in New Glass Review not, well, new?
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05, 2007
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05, 2007
Kinetic glass with Mr. Dunham
cynthia+2016-11-06T05:44:32-08:00Dunham's combined the scientific glassblowing world with engineering and art, and come up with steam engines, compressed air engines and "marble machines" that are genuinely cool. Definitely worth a look.
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05, 2007
Quilt of glass
cynthia+2016-05-17T18:24:08-07:00Quick note: Remember Windwoman, the 8x8 glass tile I did for a virtual exhibit? The exhibit, GlassQuilt, is now open, thanks to hard (and great) work from glass artist Toni Johnson.
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04, 2007
Frittery
cynthia+2020-02-10T15:55:03-08:00As much as I like working with larger forms of glass, you just can't beat frit for infinite possibilities...I particularly enjoyed one experiment--packing powder into simple geometric shapes and letting it fuse into glossy pyramids and circles and squares. So, just as fun exercise, I decided to do a whole piece this way, with a few twists.
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04, 2007
Windwoman
cynthia+2016-11-06T05:43:58-08:00Every once in awhile I love doing an assigned glass project. It's a good stretch of the creative muscles--they tell you what they want, and you get to figure out how to accomplish it. Good, clean brainfun.
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03, 2007
Making color samples for pate de verre
cynthia+2017-10-07T17:34:07-07:00My color dilemma has me making more and more color samples for my glasswork. As I mentioned in my reactivities post, I do color samples in two ways. For regular kilnwork I make shallow clear glass trays with superglue, fill the tray cells with measured frit quantities, and wind up with 6mm color sample charts that are immensely useful when figuring out color-matching and what reacts with which. The set I'm working on now, though, are for pate de verre, and they look at depth and texture as well as color.
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03, 2007
Stumpbowl completed: lessons learned
cynthia+2020-02-10T15:35:49-08:00So StumpBowl, my first playing around exercise in a long while, is done and I think I have managed to create the vitreous equivalent of the hooked rug. Humpftt. I've learned some valuable lessons, though.
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03, 2007
Five Finger #1: Stumpbowl
cynthia+2016-11-06T05:43:55-08:00I'm taking a brief hiatus from my pate de verre while I figure out where I'm taking color in casting. Sometimes when I get stuck, playing around with the glass helps me kickstart work in the problem area. So...I'm playing, and I'm trying to concentrate more on texture than color. Hence Stumpbowl.
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03, 2007
Emerging 1 and keeping it real
cynthia+2016-05-16T01:01:54-07:00Sometimes making the obvious easier makes other things much more difficult. These days I'm wondering if letting the glass manufacturer (in this case Bullseye) do all the work is really a good idea. I think the biggest challenge of working with kilnformed glass is that you often take the final appearance of your work on faith, since the glass may change radically between its cold assembly and the final firing.
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02, 2007
Drivers ed
cynthia+2020-05-05T15:53:56-07:00When I hit my 20s in California, we knew that you were what you drove. The first question out of a girl's mouth was liable to be "where's your car?" when interviewing prospective dates. Given California's non-existent dress code it was the most reliable indicator we had. Old Beemers and Volvo station wagons were driven by eccentrics who might be serial killers or elementary school teachers, yuppies drove new Beemers, doctors drove Mercedes, guys who were cheating on their wives drove convertibles, and old fogeys drove Cadillacs.